Sentences with phrase «baptized persons»

Since it signifies and communicates grace, marriage between baptized persons is a true sacrament of the New Covenant.1

Nearly all the membership rolls are padded, since, in many churches, all baptized persons are included in membership.

Here all baptized persons are one in Christ (Galatians 3:28).

THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY «The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.»

The church of Jesus Christ is the community of baptized persons who are ministers in and to the world.

«Together with the Synod, I earnestly call upon pastors and the whole community of the faithful to help the divorced, and with solicitous care to make sure that they do not consider themselves as separated from the Church, for as baptized persons they can, and indeed must, share in her life.

Examples of one or other of the two kinds of divine and unchangeable law would be, that a marriage between brother and sister is now invalid independently of the will of the Church; that a validly consummated marriage between baptized persons is indissoluble and that the Church has no power to alter the fact; that the Church can not abolish the fact that there are seven sacraments, nor alter the ultimate features of the Church's own constitution.

«The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.»

What is more interesting to note and is never clarified in articles like this, is that this cermemony baptizes people into the Mormon Church.

Since that's the ultimate goal of every male Mormon, females can not become gods, the church has to baptize people by proxy here on earth.

I realize that Muslims don't baptize people, but imagine if they did.

The result was that pastors often baptized people who barely understood the faith.

If and when it happens, we might even start baptizing people from alien backgrounds, as the early Christians did, and find our comfortable traditions shattered by the disconcerting presence of strangers in the faith — including Muslims, Buddhists or Hindus.

We baptized people are the ones who have singed on for this vision and act toward it.»

Because we believe in the after life, we believe that those that never had the chance to say «thanks, but no thanks» or «yes I would like to be baptized» will still get that chance in the afterlife, but because they no longer have physical bodies to be baptized themselves a person acts in Proxy for them!

Just because a Mormon says they baptized a person after they died does not make that person a Mormon.

Seeing these details alive in the lives of other baptized people ignites youthful passion in teens more than any youth event or personal sense of purpose ever could.

Some years ago, when revisionary theologians proposed baptizing people «in the name of the creator, the redeemer, and the sustainer,» their opponents insisted that the traditional biblical formula, «Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,» could not be dispensed with, because it is not merely a metaphor but God's own name.

Later, much of the conquest of the New World by Christian Europe was justified, and partly motivated, by this goal of baptizing all people.

They reject infant baptism and baptize people, which have converted, again.

I have heard that the Mormons baptize every person who has ever lived.

John was baptizing people, and the priests and Levites understood John's words and actions as belonging to the tradition of the prophet Elijah; yet John did not confess to being a prophet.

1) believed they would become a god of their own planet, 2) believed that god resided near a place in the universe called Kolob, 3) posthumously baptized people, 4) believed that the garden of Eden was in Missouri, 5) that native Americans are Jews?

This sort of unsolicited proselytizing is no different from those Mormons who posthumously baptize people like Anne Frank.

But the main stress in the sacrament is found not so much in that kind of talk (which may be appropriate enough for an adult) but in the simple words with which the minister of baptism signs the baptized person with the sign of the cross as he or she is «received into the congregation of Christ's flock»: that «hereafter he [or she] shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner, against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his [her] life's end.»

Sara Urry, the difference is that other religions don't impose their beliefs on other religions while Mormons do by the very act of baptizing people by proxy who would not have consented while they were still living.

God is not up there wringing His hands about the right words that pastors should say when they baptize people.

They baptized people (and rebaptized people) so they could report those statistics to the denomination, which affected the local church's standing within the denomination.

Baptized people need to get to know the gospel that Christ died and resurrected for them.

Meaning Jewish / Christians were baptizing people for the dead 2000 years ago.

In my church, we baptize people by immersion in a tank.

In both cases, the baptized person will have to grow in the understanding of faith.

Yet since most people (including Christians) do not understand the symbolism, the solution is not to just keep baptizing people since «That is what we've always done.»

Our team baptized people for five hours to the sounds of EDM and hip - hop.

His challenge is stark and stunning: Before ordering that the Gentiles be baptized Peter asks «Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?»

Proxy baptize people at home.

One Sunday at a church I attended in Pennsylvania, the celebrant appeared to think that he was being extremely inclusive when he said, «I welcome all baptized people and Quakers.»

the Voices (volume 1) by R. Kendall Soulen Westminster John Knox, 312 pages, $ 30 Some years ago, when revisionary theologians proposed baptizing people «in the name of the creator, the redeemer, and the sustainer,» their opponents....

Not exact matches

It is saying that you will go to hell because you believed the same thing as the person they want to baptize after death.

Every person was baptized after they believed!

In other words, I as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ, can do the work for the person who has died by being baptized for him.

The actions of the Mormons who «baptized» dead Jews is still significantly less heinous than the actions of some Roman Catholic Inquisitors who actually exhumed the corpses of some people to put them on «trial» for heresy.

They have to be interviewed to make sure that this is their decision and not their parents although at times people of all ages do get baptized for the wrong reason be they 8 or 58.

But it is equally offensive to Buddhists, Muslims, and to all other people of faith, including Christians who have already been baptized and don't believe they need that sacrament / ordinance again, especially after death.

Many people, however, have died without being baptized.

Some people have misunderstood that when baptisms for the dead are performed, deceased persons are baptized into the Church against their will.

Mormons have amassed the world's largest genealogical database because they baptize many people after death, not just their relatives.

«It sounds ridiculous, but I've seen probably 100 people baptized in my life,» Daly says.

Do people NOT KNOW that the reason the Morman's have the biggest (and growing) private genealogy database in the WORLD is so that they can baptize ANYONE who has died!!??!! And they do.

A living person, often a descendant who has become a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, is baptized in behalf of a deceased person.